The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-30
Ultra-Fashionable Girls Fire Dainty Guns at
Birds. but They Don't Openly Express
Their Admiration for Pretty Actors.
a Dark Seance at a Dudes Amusement
Resort Leads to Unpleasant Scandal.
Clara Discovers New Thing in Feminine
Hair Dressing and Tells ALI About It-A
Friendly Suggestion to Mrs. Langtry.
Special TO the Indianapolis journal


!. NEW YORK Oct 2o.-This 10 truly . mixed
city. Hundreds of refined ladies were shocked
TO read the other morning that Mayor Hewitt
had closed, on account of its wickedness. res
taurant where they had habitually lunched.
The place was in the region of retail shopping
and by daylight it was a big, handsome and al
together proper oyster-house. where fair shop
pers were won't tc appease their noon hunger
These nice customers had no idea that at night
the same premises were the resort of desperately
bad folks, that it had gas-liehs character total
~ unlike its sunlight character, until they read
that the Mayor had refused to grant a license to
1t. Yes this Is a conelomerate town.
81 sters Of Charity have been going to the race
courses all through the season which has just
closed. They did not even change the somber
garb of their order for ordinary Clothes nor in
any way hide their identity. Every race dav,
at any Of the tracks near New York. they went
b. oldly and openly through the gates. Arch
bishop Corrigan's attention called to the
subject. but after consideration Of the question
+ OF propriety, he decided that the Sisters might
continue the practice. However. they have seen
no races. They have simply gone on charita-
BILE errand. They have stopped at the entrances
until the crowds of sporting men emerged, and
{ then have solicited from the winners of bets
some contributions for church benevolences
How do they know the winners? Because the
lucky ones are apt to look it. Mistakes were
sometimes made. but usually the chaps whom
the shrewd sisters politely accosted were those
who had picked out the right horses
Our most assiduously fashion bile girls are not
shooting their own follies, but birds. they fly;
or at least they are trying to hit the winged
game with rifles. Out at Tuxedo, which is the
late autumn resort of the Astor set and their Sc
lected following cunning is the favorite sport
for madens and young matroEs. Light. dainty
silver mounted weapons are roguishly popped
off, and sometimes a bird is hit. A pretty little
game-bag Is always slung at the Euntresss side,
and she never returns without something in it;
but there is a scandalous rumor that the dead
warblere are bought ready-shot from boys who
make a good income. transieptly, out of the fad.
Well, there is humor we'll nonsense in the
Tuxedo idlers. A daughter of wealth changed
her name. by a marriage in Europe, from that
+ of q well-known New York family 10 that of
! intricately- spelled and almost unpronounceabls
foreign She found that in meeting
quaintances she had to go into an explanation OF
what her now name really looked and sounded
like. So she had self-inkng pocket rubber
stamp made. with her name OH it ordinarily
spelled. while right under the long word was a
phonetic spelling Of IT. Now, when asked who
she is since wediock ehe whips out the stamp
and lmprints the information succinctly on any
handy scrap OF paper
Of ono folly often charged to them, New
York girls in general not guilty. They do
not make visible ado over handsome actors. No
doubt these mimic heroes get love notes occa-
sionally. and RE often subjected to overtures
for street Irritation, but the we'll bred madens
of this town do not make fools Of themselves in
exactly that manner. There proof of this
in plenty at this weeks matinee benefit OF the
Actors Fund. Tie bill strong enough to
fashionably fill the house. and swell women
abounded. Leading actors were ushers. They
included the very meu-Tearle, Kecey. Bellsw,
Salvini, Maesen, Pounds. Miller and Lethcoure
who are accounted the 'mashers'' of as many
theaters. They did not actually do any usher
ing but stood in exquisite toilets at the heads of
the aises as exhibits of masculine professional
beauty. The reader is expecting TO read that the
fondsaud foolish worshipers of the half dozen
stage-lovers ogled them, blushed them, pos
sibly spoke to them. and were altogether rapt-
urous concerning them. All wrong / watched
the show during the whole time of the ingress
more attention was bestowed on them than il
they had been common ushers. Actresses whom
they knew spoke TO them. but by not much
as one sidelong glance did any noE- profes sional
girl betry consciousness that they were tn ere at
ALL
What has become known as "the dark seance"
has developed into a scandal at the Bijou Opera
house, where Annie Somerville and Louise
Montague the principal figures bur
dudes by reason of It's garish exhibitions of bur-
lesquers. the present play is elaborate
thing of its reprehensibe kind. The device Of
making a shift of scenes on the darkened stage,
instead of lowering the curtain, is introduced.
AT that junctu-e the space is full of actresses
and comedians. The is suddenly turned
away down. unt til no object can be distinguished
at distance of ten feet and this murkness
lasts two minutes, when the raised lights reveal
a complete change of scenery. Whether cal
culated by the manacers not. the interval has
been turned to lively account by the dudes and
the actresses. From the proscenium boxes and
the front orchestra row the charpies
hurriedy exchange remarks with the
gddy girls behind the extinenished foot
lights, pass notes and flowers. and altoeether
held a brisk ''seance" of intercommupcation.
Under these circumstances the prices of the
advantageous seats have gone M. and they can
only be had OF spectators at high figures The
furry of is is distinctly heard by the uppartici-
cant part OF the audience. ard sometimes q row
is caused among a e competitive admirers Of the
chorus and ballet girls. Neither is all serene
on the stage. In the confusion il il difficult to
tell for whom the advances are meant. Miss
Somervi1le. a tall and statuesque beauty. and
Miss Montague, the famously litigious 'sten-
thous as,d-dollar beauty" have excited theatri
cal ard dudish circles by personal encounter.
They are the Conrad and Mednra of the bur-
lesqae. and compelled to N AXE mimic love
to zach other: but whom, the other evening, q
man in the box utilized the dark seance" to
pass big bouquet they fell out over it's owner
ship. George Schiller. q comedian in the piece
to ok the flowers from the donor. who, he says,
remarked: 'For Miss Somerviile." He handed
tAem to her, tried to, but Miss Montague be-
lieved they were intended for her, and grabbed
them. There q ruction lively enough to be
heard by many in tho audience, and when the
was again illuminated Conrad was weep
ing and Medora trembling, while the torn
bouquet lay on the foor. The encounter is not
of national I'm portance. but it shakes the foyers
tremendously.
Ihave been looking a womens heads, and Won
dering what it was sticking out from under their
hats behind that resembled the handle of a stew
pan wound with hair. In theater the other
night there were three of these lifters stiffiy
stretching forth out of three female heads. On
the extreme end of each knob something wiecled,
and it turned out to be lock of hair. that oriei-
nally had been scurled, but had become an un-
pleasant looking snar
1T is the Pesikey knot" said hair-dresser